Chance

A Familiarity

I walked into the building and I could see people where already gathered around a couple of bot fighters who had already began to fight, I pushed passed a group of teens and older men to get a better look at the fighters and there bots, as I approached the front the fight had already ended and a girl with pink hair on my right sat staring at her defeated bot, to my left left sat a large man in a blue jumpsuit with short black hair with a ponytail and thick eyebrows basked in glory at the defeat of his competitor.

"The winner!, By total anillation!.... YAMA!" a woman with black hair tied back with chopstick and an eye patch announced.

"Who is next? who will stand in the ring with little Yama" Yama spoke as he held up his bot. I looked around and everyone hid there bots or broke them bit by bit knowing that there bots were no match for little Yama.

I laughed to myself at the thought of all these cowards and began to walk away when a voice spoke amongst the crowd.
"C-can i try?" I turned around to see a slender, fair skinned boy with black hair and brown eyes he looked to be the same age as me and he looked oddly familiar too. I noticed I wasn't the only one who turned to see who the challenger was.
"I have a robot, I built it myself" the boy held up a bot that looked like it belonged to a toddler.

"Bwhahaha" Yama laughed and chuckled, whispered remarks followed by the other fighters in the room.

"Beat it kid, house rules you gotta pay to play" I looked at the woman with the eye patch and scoffed shaking my head and opened my mouth to speak when the kid spoke.

"Oh uh, is this enough?" I looked at the boy puzzled and wondered why a timid little kid would want to come to a bot fight.

"whats your name little boy?" Yama asked a slight chuckle in his voice.

"Oh Hiro... Hiro Hamada" he said a childish grin plastered on his face.

"Prepare your bot Zero" Yama said as he placed a wad of money in the tray. Hiro followed Yamas lead and placed cash on the tray along with some change from his pocket, Yama took his place at one end of the ring and placed his bot on the ground in front of him were he was sitting, he then turned his head and you could hear a slight cracking sound causing shivers to move throughout my body, Hiro walked to the other end and our eyes met for a second before I quickly looked away, Hiro sat down with his legs crossed and his back straight placing his bot in front of him as Yama did.

"Crrrck" Hiro took his head in his hands and pretended to crack his neck as well, causing me to laugh which I stifled with a cough. 

"Two bots enter one bot leaves, fighters ready?" The host from earlier then came out with a umbrella and placed in the center of the ring hiding the bots from each other before removing it and continued. "FIGHT!"

The fight didnt last very long with Yamas bot striking at Hiro's making it go flying up in the air before coming down and being cut at its joints, as Hiros bot hit the ground Yama and the other fighters began to laugh I looked at Hiro.

"That... That was my first fight, can I try again?" He asked looking utterly defeated, I looked from Hiro to Yama and the back at Hiro again. What did he think was gonna happen? That he was going to go easy on him I thought to myself.

"Noone likes a sore loser little boy" Yama said as he reached for his winnings. "Go home"

"I have more money..." He said holding up another wad of cash, Yama looked at hiro obviously intreged and smiled.They both took thier places and the host repeated as before.

I was begining to wonder if this boy was crazy or just plain stupid when Hiros bot connected together again, and his controller expanded revealing a series of buttons and controlls.

"Mega Bot... Destroy" hiro said as he began pressing buttons on his controller.

"He was planning this from the begining" I said to myself a smile growing on my face as I became curious to what was happening, the way Hiro's bot moved was like a small blur of black metal the fight finished before I could even process everything that had happened. 

"No more little Yama" Hiro said with a cocky grin as he grabbed the money from the tray. The room went silent, and the faces in the crowd were stricken with looks of dis belief, I looked over to Yama who had just been defeated anger and shock smother across his face.

"Wha.. What, Th-This is not possible!"

"Hey, I'm surprised as you are, beginners luck..." Hiro spoke as he grabbed the rest of his money and put it in his pocket, Yama stood and started towards Hiro anger spread across his face and his chest puffed Hiro ablivious to the situation at hand. "Do you wanna go again?.....Yama?"

Hiro looked up to see Yama towering over him. Out of nowhere like instinct I began moving forward without hesitation my heart racing.

"Shit... Stupid kid." I said and started pushing through the crowd towards
Hiro. "HEY!"

"Huh?" Hiro looked at me before Yama grabbed him by the collar and dragged him to the alleyway with a couple of his gang members.

"Is it just me or am I having de-javu?" I said as a ran following them.

"Noone hustles Yama" Yama said as he pushed Hiro to the wall and grabbed his bot. "Teach him a lesson"

"Hey fella's, lets talk about this" Hiro said nervously as he looked up at Yama's men.

"Hiro!" I yelled along with another voice, I took a step forward when out of nowhere a set of lights caught my attention and flew past stopping in front of Hiro.

"Hiro! Get On!" The voice said tossing him a helmet.

"Tadashi! Oh, you got great timing" Hiro said hopping on behind him. I then heard sirens and backed away seeing them drive away at full speed.

I made it past the crowd of people fleaing away when I bumped into someone.

"Hey! watch where your going are you blind or just plaine retarded?" I said and looked up to see the bouncer from the other fight. "Shit... "

"Hey there girly" he smiled and grabbed me lifting me over his shoulder.

"What the hell put me down!!" I screamed and elbowed the back of his head and kneed him in the throat in the process making him drop me. I then started running down the street and saw a couple of cop cars stopped blocking the alleyway and sprinted forward and glided across the hood of one of them but crashed into one of the officers. I shook off the pain and tried getting away when he grabbed me pinning my arm behind my back.

"Woah hey, ow watch it there little lady!" He said as I tried kicking him as he cuffed me then paused when I recognized the voice. "Maria?!, what are you doing here?"

"H-hey Franklin" I turned my head giving a nervous smile. "Don't tell Derek... "

He just shook his head and escorted me to his cruiser I looked to my right at Tadashi in one of the squad cars and our eyes locked as I passed by and I looked away as Frank helped me into his car.

"Come one let's get you down to the station and get this paperwork done so I can take you back home." He said and closed the door before hopping in the drivers seat and drove away.